Sunsets...

I was upset. Just the general depression times. Nothing particular. I was off, and I didn't feel like doing anything. I was bored of the James Hadley Chase I was reading to divert my mind from my grievous non-existence, and since I had nothing to do, I reluctantly logged on to my computer and signed in a chat room. It is an unavoidable habit. The first thing that I do when I start my computer is to sign in to gtalk. Like how some people pray before meals, I dutifully sign in before starting to do anything else.

So as I was signing in, I was still brooding over the miserable life that I was living. Being passionate about my misery, I set my status message (A very interesting tool for telling people what one is thinking, whether they give a damn or not) to "world isn't fit to live in", hoping to attract sympathy.

Well, I couldn't attract sympathy, but I did get a temporary solution to my mood swing. As I was logging in to my mail account, a window popped up. It was an old friend. Well, not that old. We were in the same class in college. Though we didn't really talk too much and were not very close friends, we knew each other and had occasional conversations. He was one of the guys who used to be quiet and happy with his own circle of friends, not mingling around too much, not trying to be with the "in" people. And he had brains. I mean, he still has them, of course.

So we started chatting. It went something like this:
him: that bad huh?

me: lol.. wassup??

him: nothing... so whats wrong with the world?

me: whats right?

him: well.. i like the sunsets out here.

me: well.. yeah..

him: u get the same on ur planet?

me: umm.... not really...

him: thought so...

me: hmm nice... sunsets...

him: every time im down i go take a look at them... works fine for me..

And so it went. It struck me that I really was missing on the more delightful things in life, and as I remembered my precious moments at Marine Drive, I felt a smile creep across my face. Truly, sunsets are amazing........